Had fortune hanging fire Benjamin Lawson had a chunk of ore knocking about on his back porch in Nelson for two years. It came from the Tenderfoot claim owned by him and Eric Strand in the Lardeau district.

Green army confronts CCCOf 1500 new recruits for 1937, most of them never saw forestWith summer work starting in the 21 CCC camps of the Fort George Wright district, more than 1500 tenderfoot enrollees will this year have to be broken in to...

Creeks galore gold prospects. - Two hundred creeks and gulches, perhaps twice that many, within easy reach of Spokane are listed by mining men as fertile fields for placer operations this summer by either the old-timer or the tenderfoot.

Flotsam and Jetsam of Northwestern history--Markers of highways in old Washington. - Sixty-five years ago an eastern tenderfoot by the name of Winthrop, Theodore Winthrop of New Haven, Conn., pictured our conditions on the northwestern battlefront...

Flotsam and Jetsam of Northwestern history--Markers of highways in old Washington. - Sixty-five years ago an eastern tenderfoot by the name of Winthrop, Theodore Winthrop of New Haven, Conn., pictured our conditions on the northwestern battlefront...

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